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El presente trabajo constituye un aporte de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) para el Foro de Rectores de las Américas 2015, en el marco de la Séptima Cumbre de las Américas (Ciudad de Panamá, 10 y 11 de abril de 2015). Dicha reunión de las máximas autoridades de centr...

This document has been prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) for the Forum of University Presidents of the Americas 2015, on the occasion of the Seventh Summit of the Americas (Panama City,10-11 April 2015).

The text of 194 pages analyses the negative impacts of congestion and the multidisciplinary efforts that are needed to keep it under control, through the design of appropriate policies and measures. Congestion control is part of the development of a strategic vision of how a city should develop w...

El pensamiento que ha dominado unilateralmente la ciencia económica desde hace más de cinco décadas se ha constituido en el centro de un intenso debate con respecto a su validez y coherencia conceptual y empírica, que ha puesto en evidencia las limitantes del paradigma dominante para enfrentar la...

In accordance with the mandate it received at the twenty-third session, in this document the secretariat has attempted to delve further into the links among technical progress, international competitiveness and social equity, although it does not, certainly, purport to have exhausted these subjec...

This book is being published in response to ECLAC's concern with problems relating to the status of women. Although the three studies it contains were prepared for different governmental forums in the second half of the Decade for Women, their contents certainly transcend the needs for which they...

This document contains the Secretariat's considered point of view, as perceived from a Latin American and Caribbean vantage point, on how the debt overhang could be dealt with constructively and consensually. In the absence of better and more equitable management of the problem, it is difficult t...